Improvement in baling-presses



UNITED STATES` PATENT Orrin.

JOHN W. ROBERTS, OF NEW MONMOUTH, NEW JERSEY.

\- IMPROVEMENT IN BALING-P-RE'SSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,132, dated June 14, 1864.

To al?, whom, it may concern,.- I

Be it known Vthat I, J OHN W. ROBERTS, of New Monmouth, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Baling-Press; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable any person skilled in the art tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specication, in which- `Figure 1 is a vertical section of my invention, taken in the line a: x, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same, taken in the line y y, Fig. 1.

Similarletters of reference indicate the same parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved press for compressing substances for baling, such as hay, cotton, hops, Snc.

The object of the invention is to obtain a press for the purpose specifiedwhich will be very compact and occupy but little space, so that it may be operated in a building or compartment of moderate height, and still compress substances into bales of the ordinary dimensions. i

A represents the framing of the press, of rectangular form, and having the press-box B fitted within it. These parts may be constructed in the usual way, and therefore do not require a minute description.

C represents a follower, which is fitted in the press-box B, and is allowed to rise and fall freely therein. To the under side of this follower C there are connected two pairs of levers, D, which project through vertical slots a in the side ofthe press-box, and are connected at their outer ends to the lower parts of levers E E, which are attached to rockshafts F F, there being a shaft F and a lever E at each side of the press-box, as shown in Fig. l. Each lever E has a segment, G, at the lower part of its outer side, and to the upper end of each lever E a rope, H, is attached, said ropes extending down around the segments G G, underneath the press-box B, and around two guide-pulleys, b b, and are there connected to a block, c, through which a windlass-rope passes. The segments G G serve to admit of the ropes H H, actuating the levers E E, and at the same time admit of said ropes being carried or passed down underneath the press-box, as shown, thereby constituting a very compact arrangement for a lever-press. The follower C, it will be seen, is forced upward as the levers E E are drawn down.

per end-one at the front and the other at the rear-said doors being hinged or hung to the framing A at the same side, and they are retained in a closed state by means of a fastening composed of two horizontal shafts, J J, the bearings d d of which are attached to the cleats or battens e e, which are secured to the outer surfacesof the doors I I, and said shafts are bent at each end, as shown at f, in order to catch over the ends of the cleats or battens, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. Each shaft J has an arm, K, projecting from it at right angles,

which insures a simultaneous movement of the two shafts when power is applied to either one of them for the purpose of fastening or unfastening the doors. The arm K of the upper shaft J is extended orprolonged, in order to serve as a lever for manipulating the fastening. By this arrangement a very simple and efficient fastening for the doors C is obtained.

The top M of the press-box maybe readily removed when required, as its ends are simply fitted between bars G at the upper part of the framing A.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 4 The combination of the levers E E, pro- JOHN WV. ROBERTS.

Witnesses:

RUrsEN SNYDER, WILLIAM GRIGGs.

The doors I I of the press-box are at its upframing A. These shafts J J are in line with and these arms are connected by a link, L,

vided with the segments G G, in connection. 

